Sata ide help asus p4p800se

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ok.. I've got an Asus P4P800Se Mobo.. a WDC SATA hd (brand new)..
now right now everything is working.. i have my o/s on it.. boots up
..
now..

I also have 1 IDE hd connected that I have no use for..
So I tried to unplugging my ide drive and to see if windows would boot
up.. and well it didn't . Gave me an error bout ntldr or something like
that....
So i did some research about fixmbr .. i did a fixboot in dos..
and ummm i rebooted but with the ide not connected and still get the
same err msg..
so now i'm planning on formatting my sata hd .. have the ide
disconnected... boot up my windows xp pro disc.. format that way and
install the o/s on the sata..
now once that is all complete.. and my ide is not connected..will i
still get that error msg?....

thanks

Mike


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"mikeylbl" <mikeylbl.1jxqjn@news.computerbanter.com> wrote in message
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> ok.. I've got an Asus P4P800Se Mobo.. a WDC SATA hd (brand new)..
> now right now everything is working.. i have my o/s on it.. boots up
> I also have 1 IDE hd connected that I have no use for..
> So I tried to unplugging my ide drive and to see if windows would boot
> up.. and well it didn't . Gave me an error bout ntldr or something like
> that....

The BIOS on that motherboard defaults to booting off
an IDE ATA drive first until you change it. You need to go
into the main Boot menu of the BIOS and it should not show a
new menu option under the Boot Device
Priority line (it's not shown in the motherboard manual for
some reason). It should be called 'Hard Disk Drives' and
that's where you change the order of your hard drives.
Once you finish that then you should see it automatically
appear in the Boot Device Priority menu. Save and exit
the BIOS program. The system should now boot off
your SATA drive while the ATA one is still attached.


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